Where is the AI?

[Lacerta]

no mmo has any type of AI that I know of
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Ragnarok Online has a very basic, albeit functional, scripted AI behaviour that is reactionary as well as proactive in its usage of skills.

Give me an example of how you want to mobs to react. Because for me, you are the one who should be reacting in a mmorpg.

There are a few examples that come from the top of my head:
- Healer-type mobs casting Esuna on beleaguered comrades (do mobs already do this?). This can be extended to more extensive pre-buffing as well, which is done in small amounts already.
- Pre-emptive stunning/sleeping/silencing of player attacks that take a while to charge up.
- Casting Dispell on buffed players.
- Mobs using effective CC abilities or even aiming to kerb the abilities of healers to increase their chances of winning.
- Reacting to certain player skills in a certain way.

While, yes, having an extensive mob AI on all mobs would be overkill and be unnessecary, this doesn't stop there being less scripted, more reactionary boss fights. At the minute, boss fights - à la Titan HM - rely heavily on the remembering of the boss' rotation. Some semblence of an AI, no matter how basic, would certainly spice up these encounters.